When I connect over my local network I see a small icon of a green coiled snake sitting just above the Connected indication. I am using Firefox 139.0.1 on a MacBook Pro 2009. When I clicked on it opened up a box inviting me to “Play Snek”. I did not click on it but I will attach a snapshot of it. Does anyone know what this is?
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Try it and enjoy the infection! Post your best score here: The real important question here, what is your high score in Snek?
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So this is a game that is normal on the StartOS interface??
Yes, totally normal.
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Thanks for the explanation and reassurance that all is normal. Because the icon was a snake made it seem sinister to me. Because I was also having trouble connecting to my node when I noticed this, made me very suspicious. It turns out that I couldn’t connect to my node using Brave but I found that I could connect using Firefox so I think it must be a setting in Brave browser.